CHICAGO -- A referendum victory by the nation's independent hog producers to end their mandatory contributions to a government-supervised advertising campaign that promotes pork as the "other ...

More than half of the pork board's checkoff grants went to research at Iowa State University, which is located in the state that produces the most hogs in the country.

Ad campaigns from controversial quasi-government programs for pork, dairy, and beef are raising new questions around the checkoff program’s foray into social media.

Elated and overjoyed. Disappointed and surprised. Pork producers' opinions ran the gamut after District Judge Richard A. Enslen declared the pork checkoff unconstitutional. The ruling, issued Oct ...

The Pork Cares Farm Impact Report program is providing pork producers with sustainability reports of their operations and creating a national sustainability report for the swine industry.

The pork industry will see some changes in the national checkoff program to kick off the new year.

The National Pork Board, which runs this government program, collected more than $94 million in checkoff fees from America’s hog farmers in 2021.

For more information, contact the Ohio Pork Council Office, 9798 Karmar Ct. Suite A, New Albany OH 43054, 614-882-5887.

The Pork Checkoff funds national and state programs in consumer education and marketing, retail and foodservice marketing, export market promotion, production improvement, science and technology ...

It’s also not an insignificant sum. According to reporting by Investigate Midwest, “between 2012 and 2022, the pork checkoff gave $17,184,763 in funding to land-grant colleges across the country.